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Web Developer's Reference Guide

By : Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea
Book Image

Web Developer's Reference Guide

By: Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea

Overview of this book

This comprehensive reference guide takes you through each topic in web development and highlights the most popular and important elements of each area. Starting with HTML, you will learn key elements and attributes and how they relate to each other. Next, you will explore CSS pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements, followed by CSS properties and functions. This will introduce you to many powerful and new selectors. You will then move on to JavaScript. This section will not just introduce functions, but will provide you with an entire reference for the language and paradigms. You will discover more about three of the most popular frameworks today—Bootstrap, which builds on CSS, jQuery which builds on JavaScript, and AngularJS, which also builds on JavaScript. Finally, you will take a walk-through Node.js, which is a server-side framework that allows you to write programs in JavaScript.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Web Developer's Reference Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
JavaScript Expressions, Operators, Statements, and Arrays
Index

Global attributes


These are attributes that are available for every HTML element. However, you should note that just because the attribute is available, it does not mean that it will actually do anything.

accesskey

The accesskey attribute creates a keyboard shortcut to activate or focus on the element:

<element accesskey></element>

Description

The accesskey attribute allows you to create a keyboard shortcut. This can be a space-delimited list of characters. Most browsers on Windows will use Alt + accesskey and most browsers on Mac use Ctrl + Option + accesskey.

Here is an example using a textbox that can be focused on with the character q:

<input type="search" name="q" accesskey="q"/>

class

The class attribute is often used to help group similar elements for CSS selectors:

<element class></element>

Description

The class attribute is one of the most used attributes. The class attribute allows CSS to target multiple elements and apply a style to them. In addition to this...